M. Foslie

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Mikael Heggelund Foslie (1855-1905) contributed an algal collection named Algae Norvegicae to the Ulster Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

This collection was donated to the Ulster Museum by The Queen's University of Belfast in 1968. The specimens have been catalogued into the main collection in the Ulster Museum catalogued: F10319 - F10336. It is assumed that this refers to Mikael Heggelund Foslie. The specimens bear dates from the 1880s to 1890s. Mikael Heggelund Foslie was curator of the Royal Norwegian Scientific Society museum in Trondheim.

[edit] Publications

• Foslie, M., 1884. Description of new species, edited in Wittrock & Nordstedt, Algae exsiccatae, fasc. 13-14 - Bot. Notiser 124 - 125.
• Foslie, M., 1899. A visit to Roundstone in April. Ir. Nat. J. 8: 175 - 180.

[edit] References

• Kertland, M.P.H. 1967. Some early algal collections in the Queen's University Herbarium. Ir. Nat. J. 15: 346 - 349.
• Thor, E., Johansen, S. and Nielsen, L.S. 2005. The collection of botanical letters to Mikael H. Foslie in the Gunnerus Library: a catalogue. Gunneria 78:7 - 22.
• Woelkerling, W.J. 1993. Type collections of Corallinales (Rhodophyta) in the Foslie Herbarium (TRH). Gunneria 67: 1289.